The Ecology of Prevention : Illustrating Mental Health Consultation / by Robert E Hess.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hess, Robert E, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Preventive.

Community health services.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, [2014].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This provocative volume offers an enlightening look at mental health consultation as a preventive service. To enhance the prospects of consultation being preventive, consultation is defined as an ecological enterprise. Although attention is given to outcomes, process is the key in this book. This beneficial volume presents ten valuable principles to guide the work of a consultant, plus case studies representing different topics--self-esteem of high school students in rural Oregon, child abuse prevention in a rural and urban setting in Iowa, a junior high school consolidation in Maryland, and preventive services for Lutheran congregations in Minnesota. Each of the authors of the four case examples in their actual consultation and in their descriptions of their consultation have extended and elaborated what it means to think ecologically. Following an unusual format, the comments from the recipients of the interventions described in the case studies have been included as a reminder that prevention, in its truest spirit, involves partnerships, that “subjects” or “consultees” have feelings and opinions about their participation, and that subjective data are as important as objective data.

Contents:

Cover; Prevention: Toward a Multidisciplinary Approach; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Chapter 1: Toward a Multidisciplinary Approach to Prevention; Teaching; Research; Intervention; Volume Purpose; Chapter 2: Synergy, Prevention and the Chicago School of Sociology; Conceptual Framework: Individual, Social Context, and Community; Research: Life Histories and Epidemiological Surveys; Intervention: The Chicago Area Project; Commentary: Contributions and Criticism; Conclusion; Chapter 3: Anthropology, the Meaning of Community, and Prevention; Community Restudies by the Book

Kinds of CommunityCommunity: A Multifaceted Construct; Community and the High School Study; Conclusion; Chapter 4: Understanding the Policy Process: Preventing and Coping with Community Problems; Common Structural Elements in Policymaking Models; Differences Between Policymaking Models; Case Study of Local Policymaking: Lifeline Utility Rates; Discussion; Chapter 5: Economic Development and Community Mental Health; Recent Economic Policies and Their Implications for Regional Economies; Hypothetical Links of the Economy to the Incidence of Psychological Disorder

Los Angeles Community Survey, 1978-1982Implications of the Research Findings; Chapter 6: Prosocial Television for Community Problems: Framework, Effective Methods, and Regulatory Barriers; Principles and Framework; Effective and Ineffective Variables; Presentation Format; Prosocial Programming: Brief Examples; Prosocial Television: Extended Examples; Prosocial Television: Positive and Negative Conclusions; New Media; Communication Regulation: Historical Perspective; Centralization of Power and Resources: Problems of Access; Future Alternatives

Chapter 7: The Roles of Religion in Prevention and PromotionReligious Influences: Explanatory Factors; Inreach: Pathways of Religious Influence on the Individual Congregation Member; Outreach: Pathways of Religious Influence in the Community and Society; Some Illustrations of Religious Inreach and Outreach; The Unique Roles of Religion in Prevention and Promotion; The Interface Between Religion and Allied Disciplines: Directions for Multidisciplinary Collaboration in Prevention and Promotion; Chapter 8: Public Health and Community Wellness

Public Health as Community Prevention: An Historical PerspectiveChild Health in the Late Nineteenth Century; Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS); A Final Comment; Chapter 9: The Use of Law for Prevention in the Public Interest; The Legal System; The Individual Lawsuit; Institutional Reform Litigation; Wuori v. Zitnay: Successful Implementation of a Consent Decree; Influencing Legislation; Summary; Chapter 10: Preventive Interventions in the Environment: Examples and Issues; Solid Waste; The Judicial System; Changing the Environment; Afterword; Interdisciplinary; Community; Prevention

Notes:

"Has also been published as Prevention in human services, Volume 5, Number 2, Spring/Summer 1987"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-73576-5

1-315-79152-8

1-317-73577-3

OCLC:

891385095